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Advice on multiroom satellite

  • 28-01-2010 10:37pm
    #1
    ste15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭


    Hello, I want to get rid of my cable for satellite. I have 6 rooms fed by cables that all run back to a booster box in the attic, where my cable provider feeds them.
    I want to get as many stations as possible from a dish so want to get signals from as many satellites as possible. I was told a motorised dish would only be good for one reciever box and not suitable for multiroom viewing.
    I know I could feed all my rooms with an octo LNB if I was pointing my dish at any single satellite, but if I wanted to get more than one satellite I would have to get a multi LNB dish. Would I be able to have several octo LNB's on this kind of set up or is it similar to the motorised dish and only suitable for one receiver box.
    Also, would it really be worth the hassle, I don't really know what stations are on which satellites. I don't want a load of foreign language stuff, just as much decent stations as possible. Also, how do i connect up an aerial to this set up for the terrestrial channels?
    Any advice gratefully received. Thanks in advance. I dont want much do I! Haha.:D


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    A Wavefrontier dish is probably the best for a multi-LNB setup with 40 degrees of arc and the capability to carry a lot of LNB's.

    Quattro LNB's (fixed outputs - Low Band - Horizontal Polarisation, High Band - Horizontal Polarisation, Low Band - Vertical Polarisation, High Band - Vertical Polarisation) to multiswitch setup in the attic (incl terrestrial feed if required)

    Check out http://www.lyngsat.com/ and http://en.kingofsat.net/ for whats available up there.

    The Foreign Satellite forum should be helpful in this area.


  • #3
    ste15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭ste15


    That picture looks impressive, thanks for the reply. I have done a bit of research on satellites but im no expert. Would quatro LNB's not only feed 4 receivers? Because I have 6 rooms I want to feed would I not need an octo? I repeat again, I am no expert and all advice is helpful.


  • #4
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    ste15 wrote: »
    That picture looks impressive, thanks for the reply. I have done a bit of research on satellites but im no expert. Would quatro LNB's not only feed 4 receivers? Because I have 6 rooms I want to feed would I not need an octo? I repeat again, I am no expert and all advice is helpful.

    AFAIK, the difference between a quad and a quattro is that the quattro feeds all 4 possible permutations back to a multiswitch, which automatically routes the correct feed.

    Basically, satellite feeds isn't really a one-channel-per-cable setup; if the channels have the same polarity and band, you could (in theory) watch two on a single cable.

    The 4 bands are "High Band Vertical", "High Band Horizontal", "Low Band Vertical" and "Low Band Horizontal".

    These are continuously fed by the quattro, and instead of telling the LNB which to switch to via a signal from the satellite box, the multiswitch uses that signal to tap into the relevant feed.


  • #5
    ste15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭ste15


    Ah, I see, thanks for explaining that. So I could get a multi LNB dish and put several quatro LNB's on it all feeding into a multiswitch in the attic, and then all my rooms will be fed from the multiswitch, similar to the setup I have for my cable tv at the moment. Thanks for the help.


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